Solving Democracy

Solving Democracy​

This section is about creating the perfect democracy. What do I mean by that?

The Perfect Democracy​

Perfectly meeting the needs of a population is a very lofty goal. I don't think it's possible to achieve it, but maybe AI developed for the benefit of the people can help here. I think we simplify this is by measuring each policy to ensure it benefits instead of harms the people.

The second part is more important right now. We must ensure that our Republic is resilient to attacks from autocrats. We cannot allow a single president to dominate Congress and stack the Supreme Court with parasites.

A post mortem of a bad president​

We start by asking a question: How was a President of the United States able to wield almost absolute power within the government? Let's drill down into this problem with questions:

How was a president able to become this powerful:

• A feckless Congress - How?
  • Unable to stop blatant criminal and unconstitutional activity - Why?
    • Majority party in both houses of Congress were the same party as the President. The representatives willfully ignored numerous signs that the President was incompetent to lead. - Why?
      • ROOT CAUSE: Because their political party leadership wanted power for their party. Power held by political parties is unconstitutional, and the public should pursue legal options against the party.
• Political party leverage - What?
  • Representatives that did not agree with the president faced opposition in the primaries. -Why?
    • It forces legislators to do what the president wants or risk losing their ability to represent The People. - Why?
      • ROOT CAUSE: It is a way for the President to directly influence the voting behavior of a sitting congressperson. It is unconstitutional and a felony.
• Corrupted Supreme Court - How?
  • Nominations shenanigans like with Kavanaugh - How?
    • Refusal to allow the Sitting President (Obama) to appoint a replacement and giving this right to the next president. - Why?
      • Because the Republican Party wanted justices that would rule favorably for them against the people.
        • ROOT CAUSE: Usurpation of authority by a political party. This appointment should be challenged as unconstitutional.
  • A tyranny of Law - How?
    • The Supreme Court interprets laws however they feel like it - Why?
      • They do not serve The People. - Why?
        • ROOT CAUSE: They take bribes. We must punish these as high crimes and misdemeanors.
        • ROOT CAUSE: An oath to The Constitution is not being viewed as an oath to The People. Change the oath of service for all elected and appointed officials to acknowledge service to "We The People" directly instead of indirectly. When they rule against the people in favor of greed, then they must acknowledge that they are stabbing The Public in the back and betraying their country.
• Uninformed Public
  • Media Propaganda
  • [...]

All of this springs from a simple question. As you can see, this process takes a long time and a lot of thinking. Far longer than I could reliably do here on my own. The technique is called "Five Whys" and is simple: Keep asking "Why?" until you can't.

We must address each of these root causes, and we must address them such that they system cannot be "hacked" again by an individual or group of people. I purposely do not go into detail here on solutions other than to recommend a general direction of travel.

After we implement fixes, we must test the system to ensure it can withstand attacks.